Category: UC Curation Center (UC3)
JHOVE2: characterization matters
JHOVE is software used by most digital libraries and repositories to help manage their collections of digital files. First released in 2005, it quickly became an indispensible tool for format characterization and validation. In simple terms, people use JHOVE to […]
DataCite: UC Provides Long Term Public Visibility and Access to Research Data
By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center One of today’s most important priorities for academic scholarship and research is providing long term access to datasets. Data are now seen as the building blocks of scholarship and research in […]
Web Archive for California Water Research
The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA), using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service, has built the California Water Districts Web Archive, a comprehensive archive of water district websites. This Web archive is now available to the general public at: […]
HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
CDL welcomes Greg Janée
By John Kunze, CDL Preservation Technologies Architect Please join me in welcoming a new half-time developer, Greg Janée to the UC Curation Center. Greg will be working remotely from Santa Barbara, where the other half of his time goes to […]
DataONE to Deal with Data Deluge
Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental research.
iPRES 2009 hosted by CDL
On October 5-6 2009, over 300 people from 22 countries attended iPRES 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. iPRES 2009 was the sixth in an annual series of conferences devoted to digital preservation, and with the 300 attendees, the largest ever.
Public Access to Web Archiving Service Goes Live
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce public access to the archives built with the Web Archiving Service. The tools that CDL provides to capture, curate and preserve websites now also enable librarians to publish the archives they've created for the benefit of researchers and the general public.
CDLers in Print
Patricia Cruse, director of the CDL Digital Preservation Program, and Beth Sandore, have edited a special issue of Library Trends. Also included is an article by CDL's Web Archiving Service Manager, Tracy Seneca, entitled, The Web-at-Risk at Three: Overview of an NDIIPP Web Archiving Initiative.
End of Bush's Term: Will It Disappear from the Web?
Will the Homeland Security and No Child Left Behind websites disappear on January 20th 2009? To ensure that the historical record of the current administration is not lost, a partnership of government and nonprofit agencies has taken responsibility for its preservation.